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AppMakers USA and the App That Has to Work on Monday
A math game, a plumber’s payroll and a crashing video player reveal what this Los Angeles software shop actually sells: the engineering that starts where the demo ends.
Before You Redesign, Call Cadabra’s UX Trauma Center
Cadabra sells a diagnosis for digital products that have lost their way. Its work on insurance portals and medical software shows why the trouble often starts well below the surface.
Stellar Agency Makes Big Systems Feel Human
Nine legacy systems. Eleven port divisions. One stubborn belief that using technology should feel less like hard work. Inside the agency selling Digital Hygge to complex organizations.
Automata wants to give scientists their lab back
A robot arm was only the beginning. Automata now connects the machines, movements and data that keep laboratories waiting - and gives scientists a chance to leave the bench.
iSOS makes the office database earn its keep
An optician, a highway publisher and a construction firm have something in common: software that stopped fitting the job. Brighton’s iSOS builds the connections that let them get back to work.
Safe Software Built a $100 Million Business Translating the Data Nobody Else Wanted to Touch
FME began as a translator for stubborn map files. Three decades later, Safe Software is betting that the same obsession with interoperability can make enterprise data - and the AI consuming it - behave.
The Anti-Private-Equity Home for Accounting Firms That Refuse to Lose Their Name
Backed by patient family-office money, this Utah firm partners with small CPA shops across the Intermountain West - and stakes its pitch on the one thing private equity usually takes away: the name on the door.
The Private Equity Firm That Refuses to Fire the Founder
For 40 years, RLH Equity Partners has bet on a contrarian idea in private equity: that the founder is the asset, not the problem. Here is how a $1.2 billion Los Angeles firm turned 'high touch meets high tech' into a portfolio worth $4.2 billion in exits.
Acksession
Acksession sells the broad promise of offshore software development. Its most revealing work is unusually specific: mobile commerce, multi-tenant ERP, and a biometric system operating across Iraq.
Minicor
Minicor is a San Francisco startup (YC P26) that lets AI companies plug into legacy desktop software - EHRs, ERPs, dealer systems - that have no usable API. You describe a workflow and get back an API endpoint; each call fires a self-healing desktop automation on a Windows VM, blending deterministic Python with AI reflection agents that verify each action against the screen and adapt when the UI changes. Customers pay only when data actually lands in the target system.
SEAD Software LLC
SEAD Software LLC is an Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey company that builds enterprise applications on Co-Wright, its proprietary low-code/no-code development platform. Combining full-stack development teams with drag-and-drop tooling, SEAD helps mid-sized businesses across finance, manufacturing, healthcare, supply chain, real estate and non-profits consolidate scattered data into a 'single portal of truth,' automate operations, and stand up custom, white-labeled applications at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional development.
Thread AI
Thread AI is a New York enterprise software company building composable infrastructure for AI-powered workflows. Founded in 2023 by former Palantir AI/ML leaders Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah, its flagship platform Lemma pairs a drag-and-drop workflow builder with orchestration infrastructure so organizations can connect disparate systems, data, and AI models into governed, observable, end-to-end workflows - without ripping out their existing stack. The company raised a $20M Series A in 2025 to help enterprises and public-sector agencies deploy mission-critical AI with control, traceability, and security.
AI Squared
AI Squared is an enterprise AI integration company that helps organizations move machine learning and generative AI out of pilots and into the tools employees already use - CRMs, ERPs, spreadsheets, and custom apps. Its platform connects governed data sources like Databricks and Snowflake to business applications, addressing the 'last mile' problem that keeps most AI projects from reaching production. The company serves financial institutions, supply chain firms, and U.S. government agencies, and stewards the open-source reverse ETL project Multiwoven.
ZENOPS
ZENOPS (styled ZenOps) is a San Francisco Bay Area managed IT services provider based in Pleasant Hill, California, serving small and mid-sized organizations across healthcare, legal, nonprofit, education, real estate, and municipal sectors. Formerly known as Neighborhood Computers, the firm pairs day-to-day IT support with cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, unified communications, and its signature 'Harmonious Workflow' approach - evaluating how a whole organization actually uses technology, then removing the repetitive tasks and friction so teams can get back to their real work.
Very Good Ventures
Very Good Ventures is the world's first and largest Flutter development agency. Founded in 2018 after building the first commercial Flutter app for the musical Hamilton, the fully remote firm helps mid-market and enterprise brands ship beautiful, production-ready apps for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. VGV is trusted by Google to build flagship Flutter products and maintains widely used open source tooling like Very Good CLI and Dart Frog.
Hydra Mendoza
Hydra Mendoza is the VP and Chief of Strategic Relationships in the Office of the Chair and CEO at Salesforce, where she builds and stewards key stakeholder relationships across government, community, and corporate sectors. A native San Franciscan born to a Filipino military family, she made history as the first and only Filipina ever elected to office in San Francisco - serving three terms on the SF Unified School District Board. Her career spans community organizing, mayoral advising, school board leadership, and overseeing communications for the nation's largest public school system before joining Salesforce, where she co-architected the company's original educational investments alongside Marc Benioff.